A 34-year-old man awaits extradition to Minnesota after he was sentenced in Las Vegas to five years' probation for keeping his ex-girlfriend against her will at a motel in the Nevada resort city of Mesquite.

Drafting at No. 5, the Jazz need to take a player who can contribute for
the next several years. Since they aren't expected to make the playoffs
next season, they should look to draft a player with great potential.
Noah Vonleh is the choice.

Environmentalists in Illinois expected a
battle royal over their call for a statewide
ban on "microbeads" — tiny bits of
plastic used in personal care products such
as facial scrubs and toothpaste. But instead
of resisting, leading companies quickly
collaborated on a ban that was enacted by the
state legislature this spring.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins' name is "disparaging of Native Americans" and should be stripped of trademark protection — a decision that puts powerful new financial and political pressure on the NFL team to rename itself.

Iraqi forces and Sunni militants battled
fiercely for control of the nation's largest
oil refinery on Wednesday as Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki went on a diplomatic
offensive, reaching out in a televised
address to try to regain support from the
nation's disaffected Sunnis and Kurds.

Utah lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday about how a warrant was
served on former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's home but did not
hear his complaints that law enforcement used "Dirty Harry" tactics.

Screeching tires, a loud thud and a mannequin's body flying through
the air can be unnerving. For dozens of police officers along the
Wasatch Front, it was part of a class to help them in their
investigations into auto-pedestrian accidents.

If you're a staunch night owl who can't get
out
of bed without hitting the snooze button five
times, you might think it's impossible to
wake
up early to work out. But do you want a
better
night's sleep burn extra calories during
the day plus even more benefits? Here's why
you
should exercise in the morning.

Using infrared technology, experts at the Phillips Collection in
Washington discovered a portrait by Pablo Picasso of a bearded man
wearing a jacket and a bow tie, his face resting on his hand, with
three
rings on his fingers.

A federal court has blocked portions of HB497, an immigration
enforcement law passed by the Utah Legislature in 2011. Civil rights
organizations filed a lawsuit challenging the law's constitutionality.

Fixing a deteriorating water main usually means digging a long, deep
trench and disrupting traffic for weeks, even months. Salt Lake City
came up with a solution that allowed them to knock off the biggest
part of the job

The debate over what to do with a backlog of
untested rape kits in Utah took an unexpected
detour Wednesday, with back-and-forth
accusations of insensitivity and a state
senator's admission that he is a sexual
assault victim.

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